personally I think a online wiki where a community provides a lot of the
content would suffice, that way when people find better ways to do
something that referencee can be immediately updated and shared with the
community. As a python scripter I've ran in to a lot roadblocks with the
manuals considering that 90 percent of the examples are in vbscript or
jscript. And of the examples that are in python, they really don't take
advantage of working in a object model or don't leave me hanging as far
as what one can do with a given parameter. I remember it took me a while
to figure out how to get the file path of a pass in v6 because I had
really no documentation to show how.
So far even though the XSIwiki doesn't go very far with scripting, what
it does have on there, had been a gem for me. It was much easier to find
what I need there, than scrubbing through the documentation. what I
think would be cool is since it would be that users could contribute
tips and tricks to make more efficient scripts like in python its faster
to join multiple string variables with a ''.join([A,B,C]) than just A +
B + C.
thats just my thoughts of it all
Greg
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 11:55 -0400, Bernard Lebel wrote:
> I agree that such a book could be great. However having authored
> tutorials myself.....
>
> Even if I knew deeply all the subjects you mentioned, I'm not sure I'd
> ever want to write such a book. The XSI scripting community is so
> small that I don't think there would be any point for the author in
> spending so much time on such a big project.
>
> The problem is that you have to cover the basics very well, otherwise
> newbies are frustrated. And then you have to offer significantly
> advanced exercices, otherwise the intermediate/advanced users are
> frustrated. So you end up selling very little copies, and all that
> time spent doing that doesn't get any return. And please don't tell me
> about doing it for the principle or the prosperity of the community,
> my time has value to me and there is no way it's going to be
> compensated other than by selling copies.
>
>
> Perhaps an alternative could to gather several authors and create
> something alike the programming cookbooks. That might work. Each
> subject would be covered by a different expert. But then again, do not
> expect any reasonable compensation for that......
>
>
> My two cents
> Bernard
>
>
>
> On 8/30/07, Raffaele Scaduto-Medola <raffaele(at)inch.com> wrote:
> > Just 2 add my two cents, since I am still struggling to train some of our
> > TDs, and develloper, what I would really like to see a XSI Script manual.
> > we use the online documentation as reference, but it would be really
> > usefull to have someone write a XSI scripting book (in JScript or Python,
> > forget VBScript ever existed) explaining with lots of examples how to
> > object script in XSI. The categories/chapters should follow the production
> > workflow (model, rig,layout,animate,render,utility).
> > It would really help to have that kind of organisation in the
> > documentation so scripting TDs could quickly find examples of how to
> > access tools based on production workflow, and discover related one they
> > may not know about.
> >
> > I also agree with Brad, on the we need something with the "how the hell
> > did they do this factor".
> > My two cents.
> > Cheers
> > RSM
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